Camp Hearne Exhibit & Visitor Center

08/30/2026

08/27/2026

This is a nice article highlighting our Camp Hearne Historic Site.

After WWII, Baylor professors helped to re-educate N**i prisoners of war held in Texas internment camps about American democracy and freedom.

07/14/2026

Marine Corps veteran and entrepreneur Jerry Shaffer was attending a veterans’ social in Clearwater, Florida. Among the dozens of people at the event was Michelle, a woman from the Bronx, who told him that her husband spent 24 years in the Army and retired in nearby Tampa. Four years later, he took his own life, leaving her alone with twins. Five years after his su***de, she still hadn’t talked to anyone about it.

Michelle didn’t know what benefits she or her children might be entitled to. What she wished for was simple: something like America’s Gold Star Families, a nonprofit that provided benefits information, resources, and a connection for military families grieving over their lost service members.

She needed an organization that knew how to take care of its own.

“‘There’s got to be one’” Shaffer told her. “Veteran su***de is the biggest crisis we’ve ever had in the veteran community. There has to be an organization that is focused on these families.”